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World Bank Open Data: Data 360
Top Insights
Washington: World Bank (2025)
"Data360 consolidates 300 million data points for more than 200 economies, covering more than 10,000 indicators that are disaggregated by sex, age, employment, location, income, education level, and more. It gives users a 360-degree view of development challenges and progress across five focus are
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Digitaler Kolonialismus: Wie Tech-Konzerne und Großmächte die Welt unter sich aufteilen
Top Insights
München: Beck (2025), 351 pp.
"Das Versprechen der Digitalen Revolution ist die Heilserzählung unsererZeit. Dieses Buch erzählt eine andere Geschichte: Die des digitalen Kolonialismus. Statt physisches Land einzunehmen, erobern die heutigen Kolonialherren den digitalen Raum. Statt nach Gold und Diamanten lassen sie unter mensc
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Mapping the discursive landscape of data activism: Articulations and actors in an emerging movement
Big Data & Society, issue July–September (2024), 14 pp.
"Growing awareness of the societal consequences of datafication in recent years has given rise to a new form of civil society engagement called data activism. This article examines the discourse surrounding data activism on the social media platform Twitter. Through a mixed-methods approach combinin
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SDG Digital Acceleration Agenda
Key Guidance
Inspiring Practice
ITU; UNDP; Boston Consulting Group (BCG) (2023), 87 pp.
"This Agenda explores how digital technologies are already being used to accelerate progress toward the SDGs, and how inclusive digital transformation can be scaled further. The Agenda also showcases 34 digital solutions, two for each SDG, highlighting the power and potential of digital. The solutio
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Data for Governance Alliance advocacy manual: A tool for articulating data-based advocacy and engagement between African CSOs and the African Union
Data for Governance Alliance Consortium (2022), 110 pp.
"The purpose of the training manual is to increase knowledge, skills, confidence and build the capacity of citizens and civil society organizations on evidence-based advocacy, and data driven advocacy. Through a combination of praxis and complementary activities, trainees will have an enhanced compr
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We Need to Talk About Data: Framing the Debate Around Free Flow of Data and Data Sovereignty
Internet and Jurisdiction Policy Network (2021), 55 pp.
"On the one hand, “Free Flow of Data” is advocated by many as a critical enabler of digital transformation, innovation, economic growth and social benefits. At the same time, various concerns related to privacy, taxation, competition, security, and even the democratic process, have prompted poli
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Biodiversity data as public environmental media: Citizen science projects, national databases and data visualizations
Journal of Environmental Media, volume 2, issue 1 (2021), pp. 79-99
"Through a combination of scientific and community activity, our environment is increasingly registered and documented as data. Given the expanding breadth of this digital domain, it is crucial that scholars consider the problems it presents as well as its affirmative potential. This article, arisin
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Releasing the power of digital data for development: A guide to new opportunities
London: Frontier Technologies; Department for International Development (DFID) (2020), 170 pp.
Good Data
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2019), 370 pp.
Making Informal Settlements ‘Visible’ Through Datafication: A Case Study of Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2019), 37 pp.
Community-Based Data Justice: A Model for Data Collection in Informal Urban Settlements
Manchester: Centre for Development Informatics (2019), 26 pp.
Data collection and social media: Innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid? Event report
Brussels: VOICE (2017), 7 pp.
"On 15 May 2017, as a precursor to the annual General Assembly, VOICE hosted an event entitled “Data collection and social media - innovation or challenge for humanitarian aid?”. The event brought together VOICE members, leading practitioners, and academics. The three panellists were Massimo Mar
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